IE7pro

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IE7pro

IE7pro configuration screen
Latest release	2.2 / March 31, 2008
OS	Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista
Genre	Browser extension
Website	ie7pro.com

IE7pro is an add-on to Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 that aims to enhance the feature set provided by the browser. IE7pro enhances the tabbed browsing capabilities, adds ad blocker, mouse gestures and Greasemonkey-like user script support. IE7pro can be used on Internet Explorer 6 as well.

1 Overview
2 Market reception
3 References
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] Overview

IE7pro modifies IE's default tab management features to add several options like double clicking to close the tab, undo closing tabs, enable Super Drag n Drop where dragging a link and dropping it anywhere else on the page opens it in a new tab or dragging and dropping any selected chunk of text opens the results of searching it via the default search engine. IE7pro also adds an Ad blocker that uses a blacklist of sites to block ads in web pages. It can also block ads delivered as rich media such as Flash movies. It also allows crash recovery, which lets a browsing session be restored in case the browser crashed. The contents of a tab can be saved as an image as well.

Mouse gesture support is also added by IE7pro. It ships with a set of predefined gestures which can be customized later. IE7pro adds support for UserJS and Greasemonkey-like scripts, these are site-specific Javascript code that adds certain functionality to websites, or modifies the behavior of certain aspects of sites to make it compatible with the browser. It also includes a proxy switcher, and a word-wheeled in-page search bar, which overrides Internet Explorer's search bar, like the search functionality in Firefox and the InlineSearch add-in for IE. Version 0.9.18 also adds a spell checker.

IE7Pro EasyHome in Internet Explorer 7

IE7pro adds a button in the status bar which notifies the status of whether proxies are being used, and provides access to the configuration interface, and certain other functionality.^[1] Since version 1.0, it also adds a feature it calls EasyHome which like Speed Dial Browsing in Opera 9 shows thumbnail renderings of 9 web sites in a grid, which can be visually identified and opened. However, unlike Opera 9's Speed Dial, EasyHome permits the user to control how many squares are in the grid, as opposed to the 3x3 grid in Speed Dial.

[edit] Market reception

The market reaction to IE7pro has been generally positive.^{[citation needed]} It has been said to attempt to close the gap between IE7 and Opera 9 and Firefox.^[2], with it being one of the recommended downloads in many freeware download sites.